Professor Marshall (AM, MB, BS, FRACP, MD, FAHMS) is a Paediatric Haematologist & Oncologist in the Kids Cancer Centre at the Sydney Children's Hospital. He is the Director of a translational cancer research network of all 400 child cancer clinicians and researchers in NSW (Kids Cancer Alliance), and Clinical Lead for the national personalised child cancer care program for high risk cancer (Zero Childhood Cancer). He became Co-Director of the Kids to Adults (K2A) research group for chronic childhood illness within Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE) at UNSW Sydney in 2017, and, in 2018 initiated the new national K2A Alliance.

Professor Lingam is Professor and Financial Markets Chair in Paediatric Population Health at the University of New South Wales and a Community Paediatrician within the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. He is co-lead of the Kids to Adults clinical academic groups as part of Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE)and the BestSTART_SW clinical research group based in South West Sydney. He is a senior clinical academic with specific clinical and research interest in health services research to deliver equitable models of care for children. Professor Lingam has run large scale randomised controlled trials in India, Pakistan, Uganda, Mozambique, the UK and now Australia.

Professor Hiscock is Associate Director of Research at the Centre for Community Child Health, Consultant Paediatrician and NHMRC Practitioner Fellow. She is Director of the Royal Children’s Hospital Health Services Research Unit, Group Leader of the Health Services research group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Director of the Australian Paediatric Research Network, and Principal Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on common child health conditions, in particular (i) developing and trialling community approaches to their management; (ii) reducing low value care (i.e. unnecessary imaging, pathology testing and medication); and (iii) optimising care for common mental health conditions such as ADHD and anxiety.

Professor Wakefield is a UNSW Professor and Director of the Behavioural Sciences Unit at Sydney Children’s Hospital. Her Behavioural Sciences Unit team has created and implemented a suite of evidence-based interventions to improve quality of life for families affected by serious childhood illnesses, including adolescents and young adults with cancer, parents and bereaved families (recently recognised with two International Summit Creative Awards). Internationally, she chairs the Paediatrics Committee for the International Psycho-Oncology Society and has a key focus on supporting early career researchers worldwide, including in developing nations.

Professor Amanda Ullman is the Professor and Chair in Paediatric Nursing, conjoint between Children’s Health Queensland and The University of Queensland. As a paediatric nurse, her research focuses on the prevention of complications associated with paediatric hospital admissions and optimising health service delivery for children in hospital. She also supports the development of research capacity across Children’s Health Queensland, particularly within nursing and aims to improve the capacity, capability and excellence of consumer-focused, powerful research across paediatric healthcare.

Professor Vanessa Cobham holds research and clinical appointments respectively within the School of Psychology, University of Queensland; and within Children’s Health Queensland’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service. Dr. Cobham’s research focuses on anxiety and posttraumatic mental health problems in children and adolescents and she has significant clinical experience in the field of hospital-based consultation liaison. Since 2011, Dr. Cobham has undertaken numerous leadership roles for government (both nationally and internationally) in child and adolescent mental health following natural and man-made disasters; reflecting her strong focus on the translation of evidence-based practice into real-world settings.

Dr Finlay-Jones (BPsych Hons, MClin Psych, MHealthEcon PhD) is the Starlight Fellow (Youth Chronic Illness and Positive Psychology) at the Telethon Kids Institute. She is a psychologist and trainee health economist with significant research and clinical experience working with young people and utilizing positive psychology frameworks. She is particularly passionate about mindfulness- and compassion-based approaches for young people with chronic illness and has trained internationally to deliver numerous mindfulness- and compassion-based interventions.

Professor Craig is Vice-President and Executive Dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University. He is a paediatric nephrologist/clinical epidemiologist, with research focussed on improving the health of people with chronic kidney disease, children, and the health and well-being of Indigenous people. He is a member of the NHMRC Advisory Group on the Synthesis and Translation of Research Evidence, NHMRC Health Translation Advisory Committee, a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, the Medicare Services Advisory Committee, and the Life Savings Drug Program Expert Panel.

Laurel Mimmo is a PhD candidate with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW, an inaugural SPHERE translational research fellowship scheme recipient and a project officer with the Clinical Governance Unit at Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick. She has MPH/MHM (with excellence) from UNSW and over 15 years clinical experience as a paediatric nurse. Laurel's PhD will explore of the healthcare quality and safety experience for children with Intellectual Disability in hospital, and associated inequities, in order to develop targeted interventions to improve health outcomes for these children.

Professor Tong is a Principal Research Fellow at the Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney. She holds an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Career Development Fellowship. Allison has an interest in patient involvement in research, including in the context of research priority setting, the development of core outcomes for research, and in the co-production of clinical trials.

Professor Goldfeld is a paediatrician and Deputy Director, Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) the Royal Children’s Hospital and Co-Group leader of Child Health Policy and Equity at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She has a decade of experience in state government as a senior policymaker in health and education including Principal Medical Advisor in the Victorian Department of Education and Training. As an experienced policymaker, public health and paediatric researcher she aims to ensure ongoing effective, rapid translation of research into the policy and service arena.

Dr Kelada is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Behavioural Sciences Unit (BSU) of Sydney Children’s Hospital and UNSW. Lauren is an Early Career Research and the Team Leader of the Family Systems and Relationships team of the BSU. Her research expertise includes child and adolescent health, family functioning, psych-oncology, child chronic illness, self-injury, suicide prevention, emotion regulation, and family violence.

Professor Wainwright is a paediatric respiratory physician and Co-Lead for cystic fibrosis (CF) services at the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane which manages around 450 children with CF across Queensland and northern NSW. She is a Professor of paediatrics and child health at the University of Queensland and research interests include clinical trials, development of lung disease in CF, airway microbiology,and patient reported outcomes in CF.

Professor Wake (MBChB, MD, FRACP, FAHMS) is a paediatrician, community child health researcher, and Scientific Director of the Generation Victoria (GenV) initiative. Her goals are to speed up children’s research and to test interventions that change children’s care. She has led numerous community-based randomised trials, but her major focus now is building the whole-of-state GenV and Child Health CheckPoint platforms for generations of researchers. Awards include the 2009 Australian Health Minister's Prize for Excellence in Health & Medical Research and consecutive NHMRC Excellence Awards spanning a decade as top-ranked Research Fellow in Australia. She leads the Prevention Innovation Group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and holds Professorial positions at the Universities of Melbourne and Auckland.

Dr Tim Scott is a Paediatric Rehabilitation Specialist at Rehab2Kids in Sydney Children’s Hospital. Tim undertakes clinical work with children in the areas of cerebral palsy, limb difference, brain injury and general rehabilitation. He is appointed in the Department of Hand and Peripheral Nerve Surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital. He undertakes research in the area of rehabilitation and has a special interest in hand function in people with disabilities. His academic appointments include Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine both at University of NSW. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience and honours degrees in Electrical Engineering and Medicine.